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Issue: Vol. 19 No. 2: 21 Apr. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-04-21
DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.19.2.3
Page range: 379-456
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Taxonomic revision of the wolf spider genus Artoria (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae) from Northern Territory and Queensland, with additions to the fauna of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory

Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Brasil/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia, Department of Invertebrates, Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Diversity Eastern States Arachnids Megadiverse Australia

Abstract

Artoria Thorell, 1877 is revised for the Northern Territory and Queensland. Three species are recorded from the Northern Territory: A. parvula Thorell, 1877 (♂♀, type species), A. superelliptica sp. nov. (♀) and A. vectis sp. nov. (♂♀). Twenty-seven species (including 18 new ones) are recorded from Queensland: A. albopilata (Urquhart, 1893) (♂♀), A. berenice (L. Koch, 1877) (♂♀), A. bicornuta sp. nov. (♂), A. catinata sp. nov. (♂♀), A. coclearia sp. nov. (♂♀), A. cunicularia sp. nov. (♂♀), A. geniculata sp. nov. (♂♀), A. globula sp. nov. (♂♀), A. grahammilledgei Framenau & Baehr, 2018 (♂♀), A. halterata sp. nov. (♀), A. hamifera sp. nov. (♂♀), A. laciniata sp. nov. (♀), A. lineata (L. Koch, 1877) (♂♀), A. lingulata sp. nov. (♂♀), A. mckayi Framenau, 2002 (♂♀), A. nasuta sp. nov. (♂), A. orcina sp. nov. (♂♀), A. proboscidea sp. nov. (♂♀), A. quadrata Framenau, 2002 (♂♀), A. reniformis sp. nov. (♀), A. scapulata sp. nov. (♀), A. semicircularis sp. nov. (♂), A. terania Framenau & Baehr, 2018 (♂♀), A. triangularis Framenau, 2002 (♂♀), A. velata sp. nov. (♂), A. victoriensis Framenau, Gotch & Austin, 2006 (♂♀) and A. werrikimbe sp. nov. (♂♀). This study also added 13 new species of Artoria to New South Wales, seven of these species endemic to the state—A. abscondita sp. nov. (♀), A. ancorata sp. nov. (♀), A. cucurbita sp. nov. (♀), A. limitata sp. nov. (♀), A. longinqua sp. nov. (♀), A. serpentidens sp. nov. (♂♀), and A. tenuis sp. nov. (♀), and one also occurring in the Australian Capital Territory—A. pedroi sp. nov. (♂♀). Summing up, 39 species are taxonomically treated in this paper, including 28 new ones. In addition, we propose the beaury and lingulata species-groups, and redefine the lineata species-group based on male and female genital characters.

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